Participate in a Stanford Study on Smoking

Building 420, Stanford CA

Description

Do you smoke cigarettes every day? Researchers at Stanford are examining how engagement with a mobile app may change the behavior of people who smoke. Your contribution may help people like you; study findings could inform the design of future treatment programs. You’ll also learn more about your brain. Participants will be asked to engage with an interactive mobile platform for 28 consecutive days. There will be four prompts per day, each taking about 1-2 minutes to complete. Study participants will also be asked to complete a series of tasks while laying down in a functional Magnetic Resonance Scanner (fMRI), which uses non-harmful magnetic fields to take detailed pictures of different areas of the brain. You’ll be asked to fill out an online eligibility questionnaire and, if eligible, invited to come in for a half hour introductory session and two 2.75 hour fMRI scanning sessions, all at Stanford. In between the two scan sessions, you will be asked to engage with an interactive mobile platform for 28 consecutive days. Upon completion of each session, you will be paid $20 at the half hour introductory session, $61 for completion of the first fMRI session, up to $208 for the mobile app period, and $61 for completion of the second scan session, totaling up to $350 over the study period. Parking vouchers will be provided, and you will receive a printed/digital image of your brain. The study is conducted at the Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging (CNI) at Stanford. The CNI is located in the basement of the Psychology Department, building 420. If you are interested in trying to change your behavior, age 18-50, right-hand dominant, and would like to see if you are eligible for this study, please go to this link: https://redcap.stanford.edu/surveys/?s=MTL9PX9RHW If you have questions about the study, please reach out to . Participant’s rights questions, contact .